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Eight Things You Need To Know About Your Disability Accommodations

Eight Things You Need To Know About Your Disability Accommodations

Eight items every student must know about their IEP so they can self-advocate.

Quiet Places At School For Students With Visual Impairments

Quiet Places At School For Students With Visual Impairments

How my support team implemented “quiet place” accommodations so I could manage visual fatigue and sensory overload at school

How To Write Alt Text For Educational Content

How To Write Alt Text For Educational Content

How to write alt text and image descriptions for classroom materials for students with visual impairment

Ten Staff Members To Meet Before Starting College

Ten Staff Members To Meet Before Starting College

Ten staff members you should meet before or at the beginning of college

How I Use Blackboard With Low Vision

How I Use Blackboard With Low Vision

I write about a lot of different websites and apps I use for in-person and virtual learning, but there isn’t a single website for college that I spend more time on than the Blackboard Learn LMS portal, which hosts websites for all of my classes…

Using The iPad Markup Tool With Low Vision

Using The iPad Markup Tool With Low Vision

When I am writing on top of documents or screenshots on my iPad, I often use apps like Notability or the built-in Markup tool to write, draw, and add text on top of files without changing the original formatting. This is helpful for taking multiple-choice…

How To Search For Study Resources Online

How To Search For Study Resources Online

As a student with low vision and an unpredictable chronic illness, I spend a lot of time learning asynchronously outside of the classroom. Even when I do attend classes in-person, I often search for study resources online to explore topics in-depth or get explanations about…

Math Test Accommodations For Low Vision

Math Test Accommodations For Low Vision

Even though I have trouble seeing information in all of my classes (and outside of my classes for that matter), my disability accommodations for math look different than the accommodations for my other classes. One of the main reasons is because math is a more…

How I Manage Dysgraphia In Online Classes

How I Manage Dysgraphia In Online Classes

While a lot of people associate dysgraphia with illegible or hard-to-read handwriting, dysgraphia can often extend to difficulties with typing and other types of written expression as well. Even though I type all of my notes and assignments for my online classes, my dysgraphia doesn’t…

What’s In My College Backpack As A Low Vision Student

What’s In My College Backpack As A Low Vision Student

Here’s what’s in my bag when I go to class

Adapting Accessible Trifold Posters For Low Vision

Adapting Accessible Trifold Posters For Low Vision

When I had to create trifold posters and present trifolds during class projects in middle and high school, I often struggled with adapting trifold posters or creating accessible trifold posters that I could see with low vision. While I could create a trifold presentation that…

Brainfuse Online Tutoring and Low Vision Accessibility

Brainfuse Online Tutoring and Low Vision Accessibility

The first time I used the Brainfuse Online Tutoring website was back in 2018 or 2019 when I was confused about a physics problem while working on my homework late at night. I was grateful to get an explanation for how to solve this problem,…